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Friday, 11 August

00:59

Hezbollah member buried after deadly clashes over munitions truck "ConflictWatch Feed Iraq"

Beirut Lebanons Hezbollah movement on Thursday buried one of its members who was killed a day earlier when a truck carrying ammunition belonging to the Iran-backed group overturned near Beirut, sparking clashes.

Hundreds turned out for the funeral of Ahmad Ali Kassas in Beiruts southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, an AFP photographer said, adding that heavy gunfire rang out during the procession.

The office of Lebanons Defence Minister Maurice Slim said a bullet hit the ministers car as it passed through a district near the area, without harming him.

Ruling out an assassination attempt, a military source and a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity that Slims vehicle was hit by a stray bullet whose origin was unidentified.

Earlier Thursday, the Lebanese army said it seized munitions from a Hezbollah truck that had overturned in the town of Kahale near Beirut, leading to deadly clashes between Christian residents and members of the powerful Shiite Muslim group.

The violence erupted on Wednesday evening after the accident in the town located in the mountains east of the Lebanese capital, on the road linking it to the Bekaa Valley bordering Syria.

Kahale mayor Abboud Abi Khalil told AFP that residents had surrounded the truck demanding to know what was inside, before Hezbollah members escorting it opened fire and killed one of them.

Hezbollah said one of its members was shot and later died of his wounds.

A number of armed men present in the area gathered and attacked those escorting the truck, a Hezbollah statement said Wednesday.

They began by throwing rocks, and then opened fire, the group added.

Hezbollah supporters posted pictures on social media showing Kassas dressed in military fatigues in Syria, where Hezbollah has been fighting on the side of President Bashar al-Assad in the countrys civil war that erupted in 2011.

The army confirmed in a statement on Thursday that two people had been killed and said ammunition had been seized from the truck.

The cargo of the truck has been transported to a military centre, and an investigation has been opened by the competent judicial authorities, it added.

The army said its troops had removed the truck at dawn and reopened the Beirut-Damascus road which Kahale residents had blocked in protest.

Hezbollah is the only Lebanese faction that kept its weapons after the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. It is considered a terrorist organisation by many Western governments.

In August 2021, angry residents of a mainly Druze village in southern Lebanon stopped a truck carrying a rocket launcher used by Hezbollah in an attack on Israel, accusing the Shiite movement of endangering civilian lives.

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Friday, 01 June

22:16

President al-Assad to RT: We will liberate every part of SyriaThe Americans should leave; somehow theyre going to leave Israel is losing the dear ones of al-Nusra and ISIS and thats why it is panicking "ConflictWatch Feed Rojava"

Damascus, 31 May 2018 ~ President Bashar al-Assad has said that with every move forward for the Syrian Army, and for the political process, and for the whole situation, forward in the positive meaning, towards more stability, our enemies and our opponents, mainly the West led by the United States and their puppets in Europe and the region, with their mercenaries in Syria, they try to make it farther, either by supporting more terrorism, bringing more terrorists to Syria, or by hindering the political process. In an interview given to RT, President al-Assad added that after the liberation of Aleppo and later Deir Ezzor, and before that Homs, and now Damascus, actually the United States is losing its cards where the main card was al-Nusra that was called moderate. But when the scandal started leaking, that al-Nusra is part of Al Qaida that was supposed to be fought by the United States, they looked for another card. This card is the SDF now. President al-Assad said: Were going to deal with SDF by two options: the first one, we started now opening doors for negotiations, this is the first option. If not, were going to resort to liberating by force, to liberating those areas by force. We dont have any other options, with the Americans or without the Americans. The Americans should leave; somehow theyre going to leave. They came to Iraq with no legal basis, and look what happened to them. They have to learn the lesson. Iraq is no exception, and Syria is no exception. People will not accept foreigners in this region anymore, President al-Assad added. Full Video-Interview in English (Arabic subtitled) Full transcript of the interview

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